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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scythe42" data-source="post: 876497" data-attributes="member: 95833">The YCbCR settings should be done depending the display's needs as every application will suffer from a washed out picture if the the display's video processor doesn't handle colors in RGB format correctly. As said, this usually solves any problems with a TV's video processor. This is an essential setting - you need to set it to the correct format of you display. Basic setup if you use TV instead of a computer monitor. This must be right. If you still have to - and only if you have to set the color range to 16-235 as well than you can do it as well with ffdshow or the codecs. Whatever you prefer. The load the the CPU is minimal. Please note that this setting in the control panels only applies to media players. RGB/16-235 is very likely a thing for that works for computer displays, where YCbCr is not an option. But note if YCbCR solves the problem for a TV and you provide 16-235 in ffdshow as well you will have washed out colors, where as the setting in the GPU will not when the color range is already properly set. So going for the GPU route if you limit the colors range as well is usually a better option. Think of it like this: with YCbCr the TV does 0-255 to 16-235 on it's own and you can just provide 0-255 as you want and don't need to care anymore. Of course even your display needs YCbCR color format you can ignore it and just to 16-235 with ffdshow. Then MediaPortal will be the only thing on the PC not being washed out <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> For computer display you might have to use RGB/16-235 to avoid crushed blacks. In this case just doing it in ffdshow instead on the GPU profile is perfectly fine (or codecs if you want). But as you might use a lot of different codecs it might be easier to do it in ffdshow and leave the codecs alone. If you go the ffdshow route than you can apply this to all profiles. HD streams usually have the correct color information. Usually onlyy mpeg2 and xvid suffer from not correct color range information in the stream. If the color range is already 16-235, then ffdshow doesn't do anything, therefore it is safe to have it in all profiles. Yeah, complex topic. Basically is comes down to: Does my display handle RGB color format? If not, can I use YCbCR format to solve my problems? If not go the 16-235 route where ever you like. Looking forward to your updated guide!</blockquote>

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